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- Abstract: This is a companion website for a documentary film that portrays a psychological history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). The website provides music and films, photos and art, diaries and magazine articles, Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, and other artifacts of the revolt by Chinese students and workers against bureaucrats of the Chinese Communist Party. Learn about Mao Zedong and other leaders of the Cultural Revolution.
- Subject:
Social Sciences, Humanities
- Grade Level:
Secondary, Post-secondary
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Individual Authors
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- Abstract: Since the mid-l970s, economic reforms have transformed China from one of the most egalitarian societies into one of the most unequal in the world. Wide disparities currently exist between the income levels of a relatively few rich and middle-class Chinese and their fellow citizens who number in the hundreds of millions. This "wealth gap" is particularly acute when one compares the incomes of urban and rural residents, between Chinese living in the interior of the country and those living in the rapidly developing cities on China's eastern coast.
The causes of the growing income gap include previous governmental policies that favored city dwellers over farmers, the uneven regional patterns of foreign investment, and the massive outflow of displaced farmers to China's already overcrowded cities in pursuit of manufacturing jobs.
Recently, the Chinese government, in recognition of the potential for social instability, and in the face of growing unrest amongst China's poor, has made the elimination of economic and social inequalities a top priority. Plans are in motion to build a more "harmonious society" through the delivery of improved educational and health services to those who appear to have been left behind in China's rush to modernize its economy.
This lesson, using clips from the WIDE ANGLE film "To Have and Have Not" (2002), can be used after a lesson on the Communist Revolution and Mao's rule. A basic knowledge of China's geography, of the tenets of Chinese Communism, and of Mao's efforts to redirect the course of China's future by means of the Cultural Revolution, is required for the successful completion of the lesson.
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- Abstract: SPARK checks in on Chinese-born painter Hung Liu as she works on a new series based on old photographs from the time of Mao's Cultural Revolution. This Educator Guide addresses the different techniques Liu blends in her work, including history painting, and the high photorealism employed by the Communist government of the Cultural Revolution in China.
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- Abstract: Li Huayi, a painter of propaganda posters during the Cultural Revolution, reinvigorate the centuries-old tradition of Chinese landscape painting with his own, wholly contemporary vision. This Educator Guide explores the Chinese Cultural Revolution and Landscape Painting as well as contemporary painting.
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